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- From: gdesroch@slate.mines.colorado.edu (DESROCHERS GARY FREDERIC)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Which accelerator?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.165421.5156@slate.mines.colorado.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 16:54:21 GMT
- References: <a772730@pro-ace.cts.com>
- Organization: Somewhere over the rainbow
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- wsheffield@pro-ace.cts.com (Wayne Sheffield) writes:
- : In <1ifj42INN304@newsman.csu.murdoch.edu.au>
- : hinchlif@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Peter Hinchliffe) writes:
- :
- : >Sincere thanks to all those who responded to my post. To a man (no sexism
- : >intended :)) everyone said Zip Zip Zip!! So Zip it is. I'm heading for life
- : >in the fast lane folks!
- : >
- : >Impatience is a vice.
- : >
- : HOLD ON THERE! I just read (in the Jan, 1993 NAUG) that Zip Technology is
- : in chapter 11. They cannot find anyone to make their ZipChips (//e, //c
- : replacements), and their future is uncertain. They ARE still manufacturing
- : the ZipGS accelerator cards, but before you purchase it, consider their
- : financial standing.
-
- I just purchased a ZipGS straight from the company.(Can you beleive it
- was only about 5 dollars more then mail order and mail order said they
- weren't expecting any for 1 or 2 weeks. I wanted it now.) I got it a
- couple of days late but I think that was the shipping company. I say the
- shipping company because you should have seen the condition of the package
- I recieved.
-
- What I suggest is this. Think about this senario. You are a company
- that has given a three year warrenty on the product you produce. The
- manufacturer of an important part of your product said they cannot
- make that part anymore. You cannot find another manufacturer. You have an
- inventory of 10 more of this part. Now 9... Now 8... Now 1. What do
- you do when someone sends you a defective product.(It is bound to happen.)
- That is what I have gathered what happened.(believe me I have looked into
- it pretty extensively before buying my ZipGS) If anyone wants to correct
- me then go right ahead. The way I see it, Zip is not the problem it is the
- company that was supplying the part. They are (or were) doing the most
- sensible thing to do.
-
- Gary
- --
- Gary F. Desrochers
- gdesroch@slate.mines.colorado.edu
-
- I be gone in 6 months. Anyone know a good internet site in New Hampshire.
-